ArtisHR are currently supporting a fantastic fast paced and innovative organisation near Malmesbury with the recruitment of a HR Advisor / Junior HR Business Partner, this is a permanent full time post paying £35-38,000 pa + 6% bonus. This role will be split between Bristol and Malmesbury due to a split of locations with the client group.

Purpose of the Position:

To provide the day to day operational guidance and direction to the legal, IT and estates team to enable effective people management across all levels. To give strategic insight to the people planning process that support longer term plans to recruit, retain and develop great people passionate about the business. Be an effective communicator and build relationships at all levels to enable the support, advice and challenge of people practices within the business.

1.Drive delivery of HR strategic initiatives
*To maintain and further develop commercial knowledge of the rapidly changing business environment. Work closely with, and provide appropriate challenge to the management team to be a key contributor of the business's decision making process.
*Project manage organisation changes resulting from strategic initiatives.
*With Managers, develop departmental people plans and drive/support delivery of core business objectives.

2.Provide proactive operational support to the Management team
*Work with the Recruitment and Management team to critically assess levels of resource. Provide advice and support on all recruitment issues.
*Work to up-skill the Management capability on all management issues including performance management, absence management, and employee relations issues.
*Provide expert advice in all areas of HR policy and practice, keeping employment law knowledge current
*Effectively manage the employee relations workload, ensuring that issues are dealt with in a timely manner and with a pragmatic approach.

3.Support and drive Talent Management
*Identify current and future critical roles and deliver succession planning for client groups.
*Critically assess the level of capability and work with the Management teams to proactively support performance management and career discussions across the teams.
*Support Managers to develop their teams, raising the bar of capability across all areas.
*Assess the training needs in the customer service teams to maximise the potential of people and where appropriate design and deliver training programs to meet that need.

4.Fulfil other duties as required:
*Relish the opportunity to pick up new activities that fall broadly in the purpose of the role
*Fix things that need fixing
*Identify problems and find solutions

Competencies
*A high level of focus on the achievement of targeted results
*A demonstrated ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with internal and external customers
*Able to generate innovative HR solutions
*Good all round business knowledge
*Business/commercial focus